Vasyl Chervoniy

Vasyl Chervoniy
Vasyl Chervoniy
Василь Червоній
Governor of Rivne Oblast
	In office; 4 February 2005 – 15 May 2006
Preceded by	Mykola Soroka
Succeeded by	Viktor Matchuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
	In office; 15 May 1990 – 17 March 2005
Preceded by	Position established (1990); Serhiy Kamenchuk [uk] (1994);
Succeeded by	Leonid Vernyhora [uk] (1994); Constituency abolished (1998);
Constituency	Rivne Oblast, No. 332 (1990–1994); Rivne Oblast, No. 335 (1994–1998); People's Movement of Ukraine, No. 19 (1998–2002); Viktor Yushchenko Bloc, No. 55 (2002–2005);
Personal details
Born	17 August 1958; Pohorilivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died	4 July 2009 (aged 50); Klevan, Ukraine
Political party	People's Movement of Ukraine
Alma mater	Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Awards	Member of the Order of Liberty

Vasyl Mykhailovych Chervoniy (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Червоній; 24 August 1958 – 4 July 2009) was a Ukrainian chemical engineer, activist, and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2006, first from various constituencies in Rivne Oblast and then as from proportional party lists. He was a member of the Verkhovna Rada of four convocations.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Vasyl Chervoniy was born on 24 August 1958 in the village of Pohorilivka, Rivne Oblast. He entered politics in the late 1980s.^[1]

From 1981 to 1991, he worked at the factory "Rivne Azot". In 1988, Chervoniy was the first to creat the Shevchenko Society of Ukrainian Language and, in 1989, the first branch of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

From 1990 to 2005 Chervoniy was a People's Deputy of Ukraine. During the Ukraine without Kuchma protests, he was a member of the National Salvation Committee.

From 2005 to 2006, he served as Governor of Rivne Oblast.^[1]

In 2008 Chervoniy ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Rivne.

In 2009, near a pond in the village of Derazhne, he was struck by lightning. Chervoniy was taken to the Central Hospital of Rivne Raion in Klevan, where he died.^[1]

Awards[edit]

Order of Liberty (November 18, 2009, posthumously).^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gazeta.ua (6 July 2009). "Василя Червонія вбила блискавка". Gazeta.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ "Указ Президента України № 939/2009 від 18 листопада 2009 року «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня Свободи»". Archived from the original on 13 March 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

External links[edit]

Profile at the Official Ukraine Today portal

[:0-1] Gazeta.ua (6 July 2009). "Василя Червонія вбила блискавка". Gazeta.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 10 October 2023.

[2] "Указ Президента України № 939/2009 від 18 листопада 2009 року «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня Свободи»". Archived from the original on 13 March 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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